26 The Fairy Godmothers.

beautiful rubies. It was a prefent worthy of a
Fairy Godmother, and certainly the donor was the
daughter of a duchefs, which perhaps is the neareft
thing to being a fairy.

You will be thocked, my dear readers, to hear
that the account of this box was as difagreeable as
a dofe of phyfic to poor Julia. Nay it was wor/e
than phyfic, for a peppermint-drop can take the
tafte of that away in a minute. But not all the
peppermint-drops in a chymift’s fhop could take
away the tafte of the fillagree-box from Julia,
She had been thinking before of fhowing all the
treafures of her boudoir to her little friends next
day ; but this horrid box was like a great cloud
clofing over her funfhine. She knew fhe was
naughty, but fhe was fo in the habit of being
felfith the could not conquer her peevifh vexation.
Annette wondered what could be the matter, and
her Governefs fighed as fhe perceived her face
clouded, even when fhe was repeating her evening
prayer; but no queftioning could extra@ from
her what was amifs,

Oh, what a condition for a child to go to fleep
in! Euphrofyne was greatly annoyed. “ They
are not correcting her evil difpofitions,” cried fhe.
“ I do not allow that this has anything to do nece/-
farily with being very rich.”

Ah, good Fairies, you do not know « How
hardly fhall they that have riches enter into the
kingdom of Heaven.”

Look now at that young face, afleep on a